Re: sr.ht --- "sir hat" --- alternatives to Github

[Christian Huitema <[e-mail]>]

On 1/22/2019 12:16 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 02:51:28PM -0500, John Levine wrote:
>> In article <20190122172530.GB4303@localhost> you write:
>>> My concern is that IETF business conducted off IETF lists might be
>>> problematic.  We have an answer to that: confirm consensus on IETF
>>> mailing lists.  I'm OK with that.  But I would prefer to have a better
>>> e-mail interface from GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket/etc.
>> It's more than that.  IETF business is supposed to be all subject to
>> the Note Well which affects patents and other issues. We have a
>> reasonably well agreed way to put the Note Well on the front page of
>> github repositories doing IETF work.
>>
>> If we have random subgroups doing work on other random platforms with
>> random notices or non-notices, it potentially creates complex messes
>> that will be hard to clean up.
> +1

Let's not overdo these process issues. The original proposal by Michael
Richardson was to let draft editors use a source control tool of their
choice, and rely on the working group mailing list for raising and
discussing issues. That was pretty much the norm before many groups
started using GitHub. I don't see how that could possibly be a violation
of the IETF rules.

-- Christian Huitema